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Super octavo, blue/grey heavy card boards with black lettering to front board and paper title label mounted to brown cloth spine, xviii + 884pp, illus, VG- (boards loosening at gutters, moderately heavy dampstaining to front board lower edge carrying over to first two pages, dampstaining to rear board edges carrying over to last three or so pages, light bruising & fraying to board edges & spine extrems, light rubbing to spine label, tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Board of Governors of New Zealand Institute 1924

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Institute transactions history science botany zoology natural history chemistry geology fossils essays articles

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Super octavo, grey heavy card boards with black lettering to front board and paper title label mounted to brown cloth spine, xxxi + 920pp, illus, VG+ (v slight bruising to spine extrems & board corners, v slight soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Board of Governors of New Zealand Institute 1923

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Institute transactions history science botany zoology natural history chemistry geology fossils essays articles

ALEXANDER, RON & RADCLIFFE, GRAHAM

Oblong octavo stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Steam Traction Society 1969

KEYWORDS: specials Ron Alexander Graham Radcliffe New Zealand transport agriculture history traction engines pictorial photographic history

ANKERSMIT, FRANK & KELLNER, HANS

Softcover imperial octavo (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Frank Ankersmit Hans Kellner history philosophy theory of history

CHUN, ALLEN

Super octavo, lavendar light card covers with white lettering to spine, xv + 2pp maps + 348pp, nr fine (v slight creasing to front cover lower corer)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2002

KEYWORDS: Allen Chun China Hong Kong Chinese colonial history anthropology history cluture politics ethnology

KATCHER, LEO

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1968

KEYWORDS: specials Leo Katcher Jews Germany anti-semitism history social history

RAFAEL, VICENTE L.

Softcover imperial octavo (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: specials Vicente L Rafael Philippines history Filipino history nationalism nationhood Castilian Spanish nationbuilding linguistics translation

DAVIES, PHILIP

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Philip Davies Britain British horse troughs drinking fountains mediaeval pumps monumnets history architecture social history

ELLISON, NANCY

first edition hardcover, worn d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Paul's Book Arcade 1956

KEYWORDS: specials nancy ellison new zealand history autobiography history

BULL, STANLEY (ED.)

Softcover staple bound super octavo (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Elms Trust 1970

KEYWORDS: specials Stanley Bull New Zealand history religion religious history local regional North Island Bay of Plenty

THORNBOROUGH, ANTHONY M.

Quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine & front cover, illus title page, 176pp, illus + folding 1:48 scale drawings to rear, nr fine

PUBLISHER: SAM Publications 2013

KEYWORDS: military history aeronautical engineering model modelling aeroplanes aircraft aviation military history hobbies crafts Anthony M Thornborough F-111

BRADLEY, PAUL

Quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine & front cover, illus title page, 128pp, illus + folding 1:72 scale drawings to rear, nr fine

PUBLISHER: SAM Publications 2009

KEYWORDS: military history aeronautical engineering model modelling aeroplanes aircraft aviation military history hobbies crafts Paul Bradley Hawker Hunter

WARLOW, LT CDR BEN

Oblong imperial octavo, illus light card covers, printed eps, 112pp, illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Maritime Books 2003

KEYWORDS: Lt Cdr Ben Warlow Royal Navy naval maritime nautical history cruisers pictorial photographic history

LINN, ROB

Softcover super octavo (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1999

KEYWORDS: specials Rob Linn Australia history natural history rural Australia

ROBINSON, STEPHEN

softcover imperial square octavo (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Whitcoulls 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Stephen Robinson new zealand pictorial history photographic history illustrated

HURSTHOUSE, CHARLES

First edition, volume 1 only, octavo, blue cloth boards with blind-stamped decorative rule to boards & gilt motif to centre front board, xvi + 328pp, G (lacks spine, lacks fep, front board only attached by one stitch, fading & chaffing to boards, fraying & bruising to board corners, some tape repair to board/spine folds, tape reinforcement to hinge at centre (pg 192/193), browning to page edges, some foxing)

PUBLISHER: Edward Stanford 1857

KEYWORDS: Charles Hursthouse New Zealand history geology scenery climate natural history flora fauna minerals Maori government agriculture immigration

BUDGE, E. A. WALLIS

Eight-volume set, octavo, browny-orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board & black decorative rule to front board, xxiv + 222 + large folding map (vol.1), xvi + 207pp (vol.2), xvi + 219pp (vol.3), xvi + 241pp (vol.4), xvi + 219pp (vol.5), xxxiv + 230pp (vol.6), xvi + 251pp (vol.7), xvi + 321pp (vol.8), all vols illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, several fading spots to spines, tanning to eps, v occasional page corners creased, moderate wear to spine of vol 1, light fraying and moderate soiling)

PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench et al 1902

KEYWORDS: classics ancient history Egypt Chaldaea ancient Egyptian history EA Wallis Budge

CROKER, RICHARD

softcover rectangle saddle-stapled octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Lodestar Press

KEYWORDS: specials trains steam travel railway history richard croker history photography

TAYLOR, COLIN & CHURCHMAN, GEOFFREY (Illus)

Quarto, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus prelims, 145pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light foxing to inside)

PUBLISHER: IPL Books 1991

KEYWORDS: Australia transport railways trains steam engines history Colin Taylor Geoffrey Churchman pictorial photographic history

KOHCHI, AKIRA

hardcover super octavo (fine) in d/w (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Institute for Historical Review 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Akira Kohchi atom bomb chemica warfare history hiroshima history memoir